U.S International Conflicts
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- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- We shall finish building bases.
- American's
- Cubans are building missiles! Backup asap.
- Korean War 
- North Koreans
- We want you under our communist rule!
- We disagree, we don't want to reunite in communist rule.
- South Koreans
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion 
- Send the air support Kennedy!
- No, I'm not doing that. You shall die.
- The U.S got involved to stop placement of nuclear missiles on Cuba. American spy planes discovered that Cubans were secretly building bases for these nuclear missiles. This is the closest the world has every come to a nuclear war. The blockade prevented the Soviet Union from sending ships to Cuba. Kennedy threatened to invade the island. Khrushchev removed the missiles and the United States didn't invade. 
- The Iran Hostage Crisis 
- You're coming with us!
- To contain communism in Asia and to stop an aggressor.Meanwhile after World War ll, the country of Korea wasdivided. North Korea with Soviet support and westernstyle for South Korea North Korea invaded South Koreato reunite the country under communist rule. PresidentTruman immediately sent U.S troops to South Korea toresist the North Koreans.
- The First Gulf War
- Kuwait
- I'm coming to invade peasants. 
- The CIA hoped to overturn Castro in Cuba. Soviet Union haddeveloped much more powerful and destructive hydrogen bombs.Eisenhower gave approval to train an army of Cuban exiles. Theexiles planned to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro. Only 4months after Kennedy took office 1,400 Cuban exiles landed at theBay of Pigs. CIA planes bombed Cuban air fields. Kennedy refusedto give air support and so the exiles were defeated.
- 9/11
- Iranian protestors had seized staff of U.S Embassy in Tehran.Popular demonstrations overthrew the Shah of Iran, one ofAmerica's strongest supporters in the Middle East. When theShah was admitted into the United States, the Iraniangovernment let an angry mob seize the staff of the U.S Embassy.President Jimmy Carter tried to free the hostages but failed.When Ronald Reagan became president he immediately freed them.
- Please no!!!!!!???
- Saddam Hussein, dictator in Iraq, had invaded neighboringKuwait; the United States and its allies forced Iraqi forces outof Kuwait. Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait,president George H.W. Bush decided to act. Hussein refusedto withdraw from Kuwait. U.S. forces invaded. Iraqi forces weredefeated. They shortly retreated back to Iraq.
- Al-Qaeda terrorists took control of commercial jet planes andcrashed them into the World Trade Center and pentagon; theUnited States invaded Afghanistan stan when the Taliban refusedto hand over al-Qaeda leaders. The two towers of the WorldTrade Center in New York City collapsed, leading to the deathsof almost three thousand people. In response to the attacks,President George W. Bush declared a global "war on terror".
- This is a massacre! I DECLARE WAR.
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